GAZ COOMBES

LAST YEAR THE FORMER SUPERGRASS FRONTMAN GAZ COOMBES RELEASED MATADOR, HIS MELANCHOLY BUT ESSENTIAL SECOND SOLO ALBUM.

In terms of quality of songwriting it was business as usual – and as expected – for one of the most consistent of the last twenty years or so. But the intense, involved, sometimes tricky and occasionally whacked-out production found Coombes working from a fresh palate, experimenting with dynamics and textures – and leaving the two-minute pop-spike of his old band firmly in the past. In this new edition of The Mouthcast, Coombes talks about the record…